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Under the Banner of Heaven
A Story of Violent Faith
Written by Jon Krakauer
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.95
Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil... Read more >
A Story of Violent Faith
Written by Jon Krakauer
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.95
Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil... Read more >
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Written by John Berendt
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 28, 1999
Price: $14.95
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly... Read more >
Written by John Berendt
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 28, 1999
Price: $14.95
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly... Read more >
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hardcover.
American Lightning
Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
Written by Howard Blum
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $24.95
It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage... Read more >
Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
Written by Howard Blum
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $24.95
It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage... Read more >
A Criminal Injustice
A True Crime, a False Confession, and the Fight to Free Marty Tankleff
Written by Richard Firstman and Jay Salpeter
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $28.00
When he went to bed on the night of September 6, 1988, seventeen-year-old Marty Tankleff was a typical kid in the upscale Long Island community of Belle Terre. He was looking forward to starting his senior year at Earl L. Vandermeulen High School the next day. But instead, Marty woke in... Read more >
A True Crime, a False Confession, and the Fight to Free Marty Tankleff
Written by Richard Firstman and Jay Salpeter
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $28.00
When he went to bed on the night of September 6, 1988, seventeen-year-old Marty Tankleff was a typical kid in the upscale Long Island community of Belle Terre. He was looking forward to starting his senior year at Earl L. Vandermeulen High School the next day. But instead, Marty woke in... Read more >
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"I Heard You Paint Houses"
Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
Written by Charles Brandt
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2005
Price: $15.95
"I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran... Read more >
Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
Written by Charles Brandt
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2005
Price: $15.95
"I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran... Read more >
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The Serial Killer Files
The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
Written by Harold Schechter
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $18.95
THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY’S MOST HEINOUS!
Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the... Read more >
The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
Written by Harold Schechter
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $18.95
THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY’S MOST HEINOUS!
Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the... Read more >
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In Cold Blood
Written by Truman Capote
Introduction by Bob Colacello
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2002
Price: $22.00
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
Five years, four months and twenty-nine... Read more >
Written by Truman Capote
Introduction by Bob Colacello
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2002
Price: $22.00
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
Five years, four months and twenty-nine... Read more >
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Under and Alone
The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
Written by William Queen
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $7.99
In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of... Read more >
The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
Written by William Queen
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $7.99
In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of... Read more >
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Under and Alone
The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
Written by William Queen
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of... Read more >
The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
Written by William Queen
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of... Read more >
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unabridged audiobook download,
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paperback.
Among the Thugs
Written by Bill Buford
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1993
Price: $15.95
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that... Read more >
Written by Bill Buford
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1993
Price: $15.95
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that... Read more >
